Company – Tonec Inc.
OS = Windows (all)
Brief Summary – One of the most popular and fastest shareware download manager.
General Ratings
Software specific ratings
Rating Description
Features a basic windows style interface. Allows the choice of 3D or non 3D icons. excellent placement of objects on screen with buttons on top. Menu-driven as well.
Easy to use application with fully compatible browser integration.
Consumes very little memory.
Reasonably popular application though could improve further. The main reason for the lack of popularity due to the fact that it is not a free product.
The main disadvantage of the program. While $29.95 maybe a reasonable price, virtually all other download managers which are just as good are provided for free.
Does not contain critical bugs. Contains a few bugs with the interface mainly with the 3D buttons feature.
The only program which accelerates upto 600%. Guaranteeing efficient download acceleration.
The only program which allows this many streams. This feature contributing to reaching that 600% acceleration mark in some cases. While the increase in speeds maybe by only a few kilobytes when more streams are used it does contribute to the overall speed.
Supports efficient browser integration for most web browsers. Does not support ftp downloads at all in some cases. While in other cases downloads the file without the pause download feature capability.
Does not support bandwidth cooperation but allows sufficient bandwidth to surf the net alongside downloading a file. Supports other similar features though like maximum MB to download for a day.
Other details
Badware free?
Totally spyware, adware & virus free.
Disk space occupied:
Installer size – ~3MB
Installed directory size – ~3MB
Limitations in free version:
No limitations for 21 days.
Other distinctive features:
One of the distinctive features of IDM over other download managers is an applet it contains named ‘the Grabber’, this tool allows you to assign a domain name and it then searches for any downloadable files in that domain name and lists them which could then be downloaded by the user.
Overall (5/5):
While IDM comes with a price tag attached to it, based on its features it may well be called the best download manager available in the market.
The above review maybe edited in the future based on changes in newer version still to come.
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